> All the photorealistic attempts are bad.

I wish people would stop exaggerating or making statements without some insight behind them.

I've seen hundreds, if not thousands of photorealistic result that range from acceptable to remarkably good.

One example it took seconds to find:

https://lexica.art/prompt/3fbc30ee-ca0f-42f6-8ea5-6890d469ab...

I misspoke. I meant to say photorealistic faces. I haven't seen a good one yet from DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion. The systems that are custom built just for faces do a good job at photorealistic faces, though.

They are bad because they explicitly filtered out faces from the training data.

Not true of SD